News: Ubisoft, VC Funding, Vantrix, Kakiloc, Université de Montréal

By Heri Feb 18th 2007 in Business, video games

WellingtonFund reports that Montreal is #3 in VC funding The first city is Toronto, the second is Ottawa. However, Vancouver is close behind Montreal, and 14 start-ups didn’t announce their raise. Draw your own conclusions…
Ubisoft expands its Québec operations. Ubisoft CEO believed Montréal has an “immense creative potential”, and apparently, the city has still lots of untapped talent. Jobs will be created by hundreds, and they are multiplying initiatives to get the best talent
Vantrix Corporation has named Manish Jha as CEO Vantrix is a solution provider for the cell phone industry, and solves interoperability problems when dealing with multimedia.
Benjamin Yoskovitz organized a successful Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast, Tuesday 13th
Kakiloc, a mobile social network for Montreal, is entering beta version soon
Université de Montreal is proud to have the most powerful shared-memory supercomputer in Canada. The altix 4700, from SGI Canada, has 384 processors, 1534 Go of RAM, and can handle 4,9 teraflops.

Intellitix provides rfid access to Coachella

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twtspire.com| idea for the next startup = One Tweet Away?

Startups solve problems. So if you find a problem there’s probably a startup idea lying somewhere nearby. A Montreal developer Kenji Williams developed an app called twtspire.com that scours twitter and automatically detects tweets from people that wonder why a solution doesn’t exist for a specific problem they’re having. Here are example of tweets from [...]
AccelerateMTL : more than just a conference

AccelerateMTL is coming up on the afternoon on May 23rd, right after the FounderFuel demo day. It’s announced as a conference full of good keynotes, from successful entrepreneurs like BeyondTheRack founder, renowned Internet marketers, and other Internet execs. View more on the eventbrite page. As the name suggests, the presentations were curated to accelerate startups. [...]